“Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It’s the economy, stupid.”
James Carville (1944) political writer, consultant and United States Marine
In the 1993 documentary film The War Room.
Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 6 (p. 81)
“Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It’s the economy, stupid.”
James Carville (1944) political writer, consultant and United States Marine
In the 1993 documentary film The War Room.
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
Don Winslow (1953) American writer
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Sweep: Volume 1
“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?”
Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor
"Berzerk"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)
“Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them"….”
Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974
Source: Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition
“Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.”
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 284
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
August 19
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
Erich Segal book Love Story
Variant: What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.
Source: Love Story
“We can only get smart things from stupid things.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)